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The first godless US election

America’s evangelical right has chosen Donald Trump, who hardly even pays lip service to having faith.

By Nicky Woolf

There has never been an openly non-Christian president of the United States. There has never been an openly atheist senator. God, seemingly, is a rock-solid prerequisite for American political life.

Or it was, until this year.

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